Gas iron



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GAS TRON June 24, 1930.

Filed March 23. 1928 INVENTOR:

v M 7 9 ATTORNE I Patented June 24, 1930 UNITED STATES CARL RADITSCH, or CAMDEN, new JERSE GAS IRON Application filed March 23, 1928. Serial No. 264,099.

My invention comprehends a novel construction of a gas heated iron.

It further comprehends a novel gas iron having a novel construction of an ironing surface. 7

It further comprehends a novel gas iron provided with a novel construction of a heat deflector and a novel combustion chamber.

It further comprehends novel means for conducting the commingled air and fuel to the combustion chamber.

Other novel features of construction and advantage will hereinafter more clearly appear in the detailed description and the appended claims.

For the purpose of illustrating the in vention, I have shown in the accompanying drawings, a typical embodiment of it, which, in practice, will give satisfactory and reliable results. It is however, to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized, and my invention is not limited to the exact arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities, as herein set forth.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of a gas iron embodying my invention, the section being taken on line 11 of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the flame deflector.

Figure 4: is a bottom plan view of the gas iron.

Similar numerals. of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings 1 designates the body portion of a gas iron embodying my invention. The bottom or ironing surface is pitted or recessed as at 2 due to the diagonally extending ribs 3. The body portion 1 has an internal chant ber 4:, the upper end of which isclosed by the top wall 5 which terminates a dedistance from the front wall of the portion to form an opening 6. designates the grasping handle con: nected to a top plate 8 fixed to the plate 5 by means of fastening devices 9. The plate 8 and handle 7 have depending fromthem a lug 10 which is internally chambered as at 11 and communicating with such CllZtIIh ber is an inlet pipe 12 for the commingled air and fuel. The chamber 11 has a later, ally directed discharge opening 13 which is preferably provided with a strip of gauze let. The combustion chamber 4 has fixed in it by means of a screw 15, a deflector 16. This deflector 16 preferably consists of a casting having an open bottom and having its sides cut away at their bottoms as at 17 to form passages for the products of combustion.

The top wall 18 of the inlet 19 curves downwardly towards the depending V shaped bafiles 21. The rear all of the deflector. is closed except for a restricted open-v ing 22 which is the place, at which the gas iron is lighted. In order to provide access to the rear end of the chamber 4 to light the burner and to insert and remove the deflector 16, a hinged closure 23 is pro vided having .a projection 24 to facilitate its manipulation; The closure 23 is secured in closed position .by means ofa latch 25 pivoted at one end to the body portion of the iron. 7

In the type of iron herein shown, the fuel is commingled with a sufficient amount of air to promote combustion before it passes to the inlet pipe 12.

Substantially the entire bottom wall of the combustion chamber a issubjected to theheat of the products of combustion.

The commingled air andfuelis also highly heated by the gases in the combustion sired body chamber before its admission into the combustion chamberas the lug :10. extends into and is spaced from the wallsof the combus tion chamber. In order to provide a vent for the combustion chamber, the top wall 5 in front of the raised rib 26 is provided with holes 27 opening through it and communicating with the combustion chamber, and the portion of the top plate 8 in front of the rib 26 is spaced from the top wall 5.

In a device of this character difliculty has arisen in maintaining the flow of, the mixture of air and fuel and in maintaining the continuous burning of the mixture.

I have found from a large number of experiences that if the deflector has its passage provided on its top face with a plurality of diverging baflies that the products of combustion will be unobstructed and a very intense heat is maintained within the .deflector and passes around it through the bottom openings or passages 17 so that the entire wall of the combustion chamber 4: is maintained at a desired degree of temperature to effect the proper heating of the ironing face of the gas iron.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a new and useful gas iron which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while I have, in the present instance, shown and described a preferred embodiment thereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that this embodiment is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my I claim as new and desire to ters Patent is 1. The combination with a gas iron having a combustion chamber with means to feed commingled air and fuel under pressure to it and provided with a vent, of a deflector into which said feeding means charges, said deflector being rectangular in form and uniformly spaced from the juxtaposed side walls of said combustion chamber and being open at its ends and bottom and having its top face forming bafiies diverging towards the heel of the iron.

2.'The combinatipn with a gas iron having a combustion chamber with means to feed commingled air and fuel under pressure to invention what secure by Let- 7 it and provided with avent, of a deflector into which said feeding means discharges,

said deflector being open at its ends and bottom and having its top face forming baflles diverging towards the heel of the iron, the side walls of said deflector being cut away at the bottom throughout'the extent of said baflles and means to lock said deflector in position.

8. The combination with a gas iron having a combustion chamber with means to feed commingled air and fuelunder pressure to being restricted it and provided with a vent, of a deflector into which said feeding means discharges, said deflector being open at its ends and bottom and having its top face forming bafiles diverging towards the heelof the iron, the opening at the rear of said deflector curving outwardly, deflector at its bottom being cut away to form passages for the products of combustion and a controllable opening at the rear of the iron through which said deflector is removable.

CARL RADITSOH.

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